plainclothes
Speech parts
1. plainclothes - Noun
2. plainclothes - Adjective
Meaning
plainclothes (not comparable)
(usually of a police officer) Wearing ordinary civilian clothes instead of a uniform, in order to avoid detection.
plainclothes (uncountable)
Ordinary civilian clothes, rather than uniform.
Synonyms
Phrases with the word
Examples
Ur-Fascism is still around us, sometimes in plainclothes.
According to a release from Sheriff Joseph Fucito, plainclothes deputies went inside Tuesday and ordered food in exchange for a mandatory $40 “donation.”
Allegedly some plainclothes police have taken people off the street for discussing the pandemic.
A demonstration in the centre was being forcibly dispersed when a bystander named Benno Ohnesorg was shot in the head and killed by a plainclothes policeman.
District security forces, uniformed police, and plainclothes officers dragged protesters away from the embassies.
A narcotics investigation was underway in the area, involving a plainclothes police officer and an unmarked car.